Pharmaceuticals 

High performance, starch-based excipients and encapsulants

Deliver value for your business with starch solutions from Ingredion

Find superior solutions for your pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products, with Ingredion’s vegetable-based excipients and encapsulants, offering reliable delivery of vitamins, carotenoids and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). 

Our portfolio of starch-based solutions allow for faster, more efficient tableting and encapsulation operations, including the stabilisation, protection and release of APIs. Derived from sustainable, renewable sources, our ingredients are non-allergenic and non-animal based. 

Overcome your formulation challenges with Ingredion

Discover Ingredion’s range of solutions for:

  • Direct compression and wet granulation tableting, for coatings, as fillers, binders and disintegrants
  • Filling of hard or soft capsules
  • Encapsulation of carotenoids, oil soluble vitamins and nutraceutical oils 
  • Fortification options such as added fibre and gluten-free.

Encapsulation of your pharmaceutical actives will deliver a range of benefits to your products and manufacturing operations:

  • Improved product quality
  • Improved shelf-life stability 
  • Improved release characteristics
  • Unmatched ease of handling and dispersion in aqueous systems
  • Reduced loss during processing storage
  • Reduced cross-contamination resulting from lower dust formation 
  • Reducing cost-in-use through high active loading and productivity improvements.

Find the right ingredient solution

Discover innovative ingredients that solve your challenges in pharmaceutical applications.

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